Word: planetarium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hayden Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science has also been flooded with calls. Monday they received more than 50, museum official Bob Burnston said. Museum workers taking the calls have explained that the planets, when most nearly aligned before dawn today, were grouped within a 98-degree quadrant around the sun and that even perfect alignment would cause only a one millimeter tide on the sun. Burnston said...
...leader. Dean, however, inherits his girlfriend. He and she then run off to a deserted mansion. Peace, however, does not last. Within hours the gang is after them, and another student goes crazy with a gun. Having shot one member of the gang, he then takes refuge in a planetarium, shoots at the police, and is eventually killed by the officers. Throughout this whole day, Dean is trying to live a good American life...
...created within the university community. Long after the fiscal sting has disappeared, students, faculty, staff and administrators will remember the bitter struggle for scarce resources. The "open process" by which Mackey conducted the budget-cuts decision-making probably exacerbated the problem, as supporters of every program from the planetarium to highway-safety training pleaded for hours at open meetings. "I am sure we heard all the reasons why we can't make any cuts in any program." John B. Bruff, chairman of the board of trustees, said at one of the sessions...
Kirkpatrick Planetarium...
...other Soviet cities. The gathering place for Moscow apartment hunters is the subway stop on Leningradsky Prospekt. The place to buy women's goods, such as lipstick, lingerie and dresses, is inside the public toilet two blocks from the Bolshoi Theater. On a side street near the Moscow Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles for "a sentence." The mysterious sentence: a valuable...